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Measuring the ROI of choosing Flex for Enterprise RIAs How to estimate the benefits and the final Return on Investment of adopting Flex to develop or re-design Rich Internet Applications to be used by the internal staff of a company 360Flex Conference Milan 7- 9 April 2008

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Enterprise Rich Internet Applications In this presentation the term “Enterprise RIAs” refers to RIAs to be used by the internal staff of an organization to perform the operations Possible ent.RIAs are: CRMs, ERPs, salesforce automation platforms, banking operations platforms Definition

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The “Walled Garden Syndrome” of enterprise RIAs caused scarce availability of data, examples and case histories However, as the ROI methodology synthesizes in one index only all a series of “sensitive” data, its disclosure is often accepted by companies Data availability

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Why should we make the effort? (Ex ante & ex post): deciding feasibility, comparing alternative solutions, reduce uncertainty, lower expenses but most of all: promoting our RIA project in such a way that it results credible and reliable to senior managers! Why evaluate

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Youthru makes the selection process more effective also for the candidates as it gives them the opportunity to highlight certain aspects of one’s personality and attitudes which cannot be adequately expressed by a textual resume. Calculating the ROI index BCR=1  ROI=0  BEP (BENEFITS=COSTS) In enterprise applications ROIs in the region of 100 to 700% are quite frequent. When a specific need has been identified and a performance gap exists, ROI values can be very high* BEP ROI value *ROI for technology project, Roulstone & Phillips, BH 2008

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Youthru makes the selection process more effective also for the candidates as it gives them the opportunity to highlight certain aspects of one’s personality and attitudes which cannot be adequately expressed by a textual resume.

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Youthru makes the selection process more effective also for the candidates as it gives them the opportunity to highlight certain aspects of one’s personality and attitudes which cannot be adequately expressed by a textual resume. Considerations respect an alternative technology Flex probably represents the best choice for interaction and enhanced user experience, which increase the ROI formula numerator And a formidable alternative to decrease development costs (cross browser testing alone, takes 20% of total development time in ordinary IT projects) Flex impact on ROI